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    The problem with Phainon is that—well. There's actually no problem with Phainon, if you discount the fact that he works six days a week and spends his single day off being on-call; his intertwining savior-hero-martyr complex (according to Cyrene); his ugly rusted beat-up truck (according to Hyacine); his general demeanor and boring lifestyle (according to Cipher).

    In which Phainon has an ethical crisis.

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    23 Jul 2026

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    "I came. I came?" He looks dazed. "No wonder they were saying you're good with your hands."
     
    "Huh? Who's saying that?" Has Phainon been fingering people unaware? That's scary.

    "The cows," Mydei explains. He doesn't elaborate, choosing instead to flop bonelessly on Phainon's bed. Phainon thinks about it and comes to the conclusion that he does not like that explanation.

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    "If it was nothing, you shouldn't have a problem repeating it," Mydei says, unmoving, but Phainon knows if his palms weren't oiled and powdery, he'd be folding his arms over his chest. Instead, they hang, claw-like, in front of him. It'd be funny if Phainon had the upper hand. "Look me in the eye..."

    Instead—in an obviously Pavlovian response—Phainon does.

    "…And ask. One more time."

    The song plummets into the bridge, petering out between them. Phainon inhales deeply, catalogues his crowded, eclectic dining/living room, at everything and everywhere except Mydei until he absolutely has to.

    "Right…um. So. Mydei…" he nods, smiles, even, despite the dread. No point in backing down now.

    "Do you want to make a sex tape?"

    Phainon has a proposition. His feelings for Mydei are (definitely) not part of it.

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    26 Jul 2026

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    Expected a straightforward pwp and was assassinated by phainon’s deep seated self worth issues. All aboard the idiot express, passenger count: 1 - Phainon!!! Making himself sick with anxiety for 0 reason 😭😭😭 this is literally such well written character introspection in a sex tape plot HAHA

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    “Why do you think you’re from a different world?” Mydei asks.

    “Last night, I went to sleep in the same bedroom as you in the house we've had since last year,” Phainon says. “This morning, I woke up in an unfamiliar room that looks like it was built a thousand years ago. You weren’t in bed with me, there wasn’t a wedding band on my finger, and”—his eyes flicker to Mydei’s chest, a fiery blush blooming on his face—“you’re half-naked.”

    “We sleep together?” Mydei asks, surprised.

    Phainon deadpans.

    “We’re married.”

    (Phainon finds himself in a modern Amphoreus where he and Mydei have been married for years. Mydei finds himself with a Phainon that claims the two of them are married.)

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    22 Jul 2026

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    Mydei pins him down with firm hands and says, low and urgent, “Listen—the people think you can bear a child.”

    Phainon blinks at him. Mydei waits for him to sputter, to laugh. To refute him and call the very notion ridiculous, and launch into an hours-long exposition on the sheer absurdity of such a statement.

    His husband does none of that.

    (In the wake of Era Nova, peace settles—but gossip does not. Especially when it involves divine conception and the Deliverer of Amphoreus.)

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    20 Jul 2026

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    “Well,” is what Aglaea says at last. “This is certainly… a predicament.”

    Her voice is as unreadable as ever, so it could mean anything from this is manageable to this is a disaster the likes of which the Flame-Chase Journey will never recover from. As things stand, Mydei is more inclined to believe the latter.

    Beside them, Tribbie finally pops up from where she’s been studying their joined hands. “What Snowy said is true!” she proclaims in a voice far too cheerful for their current situation. “He and De are one hundred percent stuck to each other.”

    While out on patrol, Mydei and Phainon get hit with a curse that binds their hands together.

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    18 Jul 2026

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    “There are many things I want,” Mydei says, and his voice comes out perfectly even. “You, Phainon of Aedes Elysiae, just happen to be the most consequential of them all.”